Pinter at sixty / edited by Katherine H. Burkman and John L. Kundert-Gibbs.

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9780585201016

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Burkman, Katherine H.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages).

Series:

Drama and performance studies

Drama and performance studies.

General Note:

Papers presented at the Pinter Festival which was held Apr. 19-21, 1991, Ohio State University in honor of Pinter's 60th birthday.

Contents:

Pinter in rehearsal : from The birthday party to Mountain language / Producing Pinter / Harold Pinter's Theatre of cruelty / Harold Pinter's The hothouse : a parable of the holocaust / Disjuncture as theatrical and postmodern practice in Griselda Gambaro's The camp and Harold Pinter's Mountain language / The outsider in Pinter and Havel / The betrayal of facts : Pinter and Duras beyond adaptation / Image and attention in Harold Pinter / Pinter and the ethos of minimalism / Chekhov, Beckett, Pinter : the st(r)ain upon the silence / "That first last look ..." / A rose by any other name : Pinter and Shakespeare / From novel to film : Harold Pinter's adaptation of The trial / "I am powerful ... and I am only the lowest doorkeeper" : power play in Kafka's The trial and Pinter's Victoria Station / Art objects as metaphors in the filmscripts of Harold Pinter / Pinter and Bowen : The heat of the day / Portrait of Deborah : A kind of Alaska / Deborah's homecoming in A kind of Alaska : an afterword

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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008-Criticism and interpretation-Congresses.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-

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Burkman, Katherine H.

Kundert-Gibbs, John L.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.

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Pinter Festival (1991 : Ohio State University)

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1993

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English playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930, in London's East End. From childhood he was interested in literature and acting. He studied at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film.

Pinter published his first poems in 1950. He worked as a bit-part actor in a BBC Radio program and also toured with a Shakespearean troupe. Pinter has written over 30 plays, achieving great success internationally. He has also directed several of his dramas.

Pinter was married to actress Vivien Merchant from 1956 to 1980, before wedding biographer Lady Antonia Fraser. From his first marriage he has a son who is a writer and musician.

Pinter has won numerous prestigious literary prizes in poetry and theatre. He was awarded the Hermann Kesten Medallion for outstanding commitment on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers. He has been granted honorary degrees at universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, and Greece. In 2005, Pinter received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died from cancer on December 24, 2008 at the age of 78.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Choice Review

Harold Pinter was 60 on October 10, 1990. This tribute consists of a selection of papers given at the Ohio State University Pinter Festival International Meeting held April 19-21, 1991. The 18 contributions by different hands, primarily academics and two producers are arranged in six sections. The first concentrates on Pinter in production. The second, "Political Pinter," contains essays on Pinter and the theater of cruelty, which deal with The Hothouse, a comparison of the Argentinian Gambaro's The Camp with Mountain Language, and "The Outsider in Pinter and Havel." The third section, "Pinter's Poetics," has contributions on aspects of structure, image, and postmodernism in Pinter. The fourth, "Pinter and Influence," compares Pinter with Chekhov, Beckett, Shakespeare, and Kafka. The fifth section focuses entirely on "Pinter and Film," and the last on A Kind of Alaska. The essays on producing Pinter, on A Kind of Alaska, Mountain Language, Victoria Station, and on the film scripts, should prove valuable for students. Uneven in quality and length, at times difficult to read, some of the contributions lack the element of "love" evident in John Calder's Beckett at 60 (1967). Sensibly produced for library usage, with black-and-white illustrations and a detailed index. Recommended for all English and drama collections. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; general. W. Baker Northern Illinois University